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I was struck by the February 2018 Space X launch of the most powerful rocket in history, the Falcon Heavy and along with the promise of large, Mars-bound payloads, this launch deposited more pollution into the atmosphere. How do we catalog these new advancements? With wonder - as two of the three rocket’s boosters simultaneously returned to land, upright on their respective landing pads? With trepidation- as the sight of the power to take us to new planets may suggest we need a backup plan to earth? These new paintings are a meditation a significant moment in human history while also a study in muted color, surface, and the power of images.

new hope (Space X Falcon Heavy side boosters first landing)

44” x 66”, oil on linen over panel, 2018

water vapour flowing from the surface of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

42” x 66”, oil on linen, 2018

Magenta Violet Phthalo Falcon Heavy launch

44” x 66”, oil on linen over panel, 2018

to escape the gravity of Earth

24” x 36”, oil on linen over panel, 2018

Rosetta is in orbit around 67PChuryumovGerasimenko

8” x 10”, oil on linen over panel, 2018

Mars Opportunity Rover, Murray Buttes region, Italian Pink

8” x 10”, oil on linen over panel, 2018

green gold terra verte Falcon Heavy Launch

11” x 14”, oil on linen over panel, 2018

Iceberg X

a series of oil paintings on linen with a focus on arctic imagery that questions the condition of the landscape, painting's core tenets of illusion and surface, and how our daily choices may affect the future of our planet.

iceberg quinacridone X

42" x 60", oil on linen, 2017

gray green blue violet Arctic sea XX

42" x 60", oil on linen, 2017

magenta glacier Xx

magenta glacier Xx, 21” x 24”, oil on linen, 2017

blood red arctic sea XXx

16” tondo, oil on linen over panel, 2017

blue iceberg gray X

11” x 14”, oil on linen over panel, 2017

earth orange underwater iceberg X

14” tondo, oil on linen over panel, 2017

pack ice edge violet Xx,

8” x 10, oil on linen over panel, 2017

arctic mountains gold X

arctic mountains gold X, 8” x 10”, oil on linen over panel, 2017

iceberg rough orange X

8” x 8”, oil on linen over panel, 2017

blue green Arctic sea gold X

8” tondo, oil on linen over panel

Arctic Sky arctic sky dianthus pink X

6" tondo, oil on linen over panel, 2018

glacier green phthalate blue xxX

30" x 36", graphite, conte, oil on linen over panel, 2017

Arctic sea provence violet X

30" x 36", graphite, conte, oil on linen over panel

install view, magenta glacier Xx

edge detail, pack ice edge violet xX

surface detail, iceberg quinacridone X

surface detail, gray green blue violet Arctic sea XX

constellation atlas

paintings begun on unstretched canvas or linen, approached compressed and expanded, with an emphasis on drawing, accumulation, mapping, and suggestions of the unseen.

the shape of everything

Installation images of the 2016 exhibition at University of Oklahoma's Lightwell gallery. This exhibition included 37 works of art spanning five years of making (2011-2016). The exhibition was centered around how we think about the universe at large, painting as a process, using different modes of making, and how we think about patterns and systems.

the shape of everything (inflatable)

13' x 22' x 11', oil, acrylic, spray paint on coated canvas, 2016

stick charts for a new universe

using studio detritus and cut canvas/linen from other works these paintings come together in unexpected ways and act as analog maps, future possibilities, and material realizations.

observatory

work created after my 2014 west Texas and New Mexico research road trip, with an itinerary that concerned the cosmos.

This process of searching- to find patterns within and outside the frame of the substrate, draw boundaries around vastness, allowing forms to arise and recede, echoes our search for answers about the universe. We reach out into that busy void just as we look at paintings, primarily through vision.

star chaser

9" x 12", oil + wax on canvas, 2014

gravitational waves exist

8" x 10", oil, wax, and spray paint on linen over panel, 2016

scattered like a constellation

8" x 10", oil, wax, and spray paint on linen over panel, 2016

the observatory

24" x 36", oil + wax on panel, 2014

the colossus

18" x 24", oil + wax on panel, 2014

this place is no good for the imagination

18" x 24", oil + wax on panel, 2014

spectrograph

18" x 24", oil + wax on panel, 2014

often a star was waiting for you to notice it

24" x 30", oil + wax on panel, 2014

spaces we breathe

18" x 24", oil + wax on panel, 2014

incandescent

18" x 24", oil + wax on panel, 2014

your resonance

18" x 24", oil + wax on panel, 2014

solaris

16" x 20", oil + wax on panel, 2014

Socorro

11" x 14", oil + wax on canvas over panel, 2014

the wilds

8" x 10", oil + wax on panel, 2014

sunset at Apache Point

8" x 10", oil + wax on panel, 2014

elastic scattering

8" x 10", oil + wax on panel, 2014

signal to noise, signal to noise

8" x 10", oil + wax on panel, 2014

Marfa lights

8" x 10", oil + wax on panel, 2014

array

8" x 10", oil + wax on panel, 2014

dusk and silence (Big Bend)

8" x 10", oil + wax on panel, 2014

trapped in a shape

oil + wax on panel, 24" x 36", 2014

volumes, voids, and vectors

This is a selection of paintings from the volume, voids, and vectors body of work. Composed of a series of vectors, forms, textures, and a range of paint applications, the illusionistic spaces found in my previous work are reduced to a backdrop or eliminated all together. Brought to the foreground- countless layers conceal, build, overlap and respond to each other. Starting points are lost, redrawn and in rare circumstances, resurrected.

dark energy, dark matter

This body of work brought together my interest in the sublime, outer space, surface, things unseen, and the process of making a painting.

the sublime

42" x 66", oil on linen, 2015

calculations

42" x 66", oil on linen, 2011

new star

16" x 20", oil on linen over panel, 2011

phenomena

9" x 12", oil on panel, 2012

8" x 10", oil on panel, 2011

8" x 10", oil on panel, 2011

6" x 6", oil on linen over panel, 2011

installation view

60" x 180", oil on panel, 2012

disruptions

These paintings reflect contemplation on the history of landscape painting, geological time, manifest destiny, and how we often forget that nature can change right before our eyes.

(not yet titled)

44" x 66", oil on linen, 2010-2014

(mt. st. helens)

18" x 24", oil on canvas, 2010

disruptions

18" x 24" each, oil on canvas, 2010

vanishing point (eruption)

16" x 21", water color and acrylic on paper, 2011

wake

this group of iceberg paintings suggests that landscape is not a static object but changes with disregard to human concern. The iceberg is powerful, mysterious, but fragile in the contemporary context of climate change.